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title: The planets were called “Na Hoku hele”—“the going stars.” — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The planets were called “Na Hoku hele”—“the going stars.” A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 31

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The planets were called “Na Hoku hele”—“the going stars.”

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**What happens:** call, go · **To what, where:** planets, stars · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:5:31
# text = The planets were called “Na Hoku hele”—“the going stars.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	planets	planet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Na	Na	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Hoku	Hoku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	hele	hele	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
14	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | the planets |  |  |  | Na hele *xcomp* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund |  | stars |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location star=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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